Allow merging Cohorts

[ielis]

We may want to overload __add__ or __or__ operators on Cohort to allow merging two cohorts, because a cohort is essentially a set of individuals. The merge can succeed as long as there is no individual with the same ID present in both cohorts.

[pnrobinson]

It seems to be just as easy to "extend" lists of phenopackets, so not sure that we need this additional function? @ielis

[ielis]

The flip side of merging phenopackets is that we must do Q/C and functional annotation to go from phenopacket -> cohort, while if we merge Cohorts, we are already past that. So, the only thing to verify is that the variants are on the same build, HPO on the same version, and the sets of individuals are disjoint.

However, it is indeed probably a low priority.